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This example is wrong. "Pick and Dip" multi-classing results in having the classes forced to either run the gauntlet for your Five Levels of Suck, or having to design around the Fierce Competitor with twenty Front-Loaded powers or abilities. Mourn for the loss of a Sacred Cow to a alter of a...

Some of the most casual games I've ever been a part of were White Wolf properties. Drift-in, Drift-out narrative about stalking an apartment building that looked like the one we were in. And further, post-conversion of 2E to 3E had its own casual air, called "not having System Mastery". The...

You can't come up with a better reason than my flippant response? Especially if you're building a grand construction beyond your original prognostication; walk up to peasant, attempt to sell is far beyond "city of 47k people". Off-hand, monopoly merchant guild with watchers. Enforced by...

Simulationist? If you're asking that a Player should be able to sell whatever he has on hand with zero interaction with the DM (which assumes Ye Old Convenient Item Shoppe), Simulationist isn't the term you should be using. That peasant? Too poor. The guy with enough cash? Doesn't want it...

"The Peasant doesn't have the Cash On Hand" is about the same amount of "Ok with the DM" with a lot more added strength to Rule 0.

Are you comparing 4E to Checkers while 3E is Age of Civilization? If so: Calling 4E Checkers is a new version of "THAC0 kept the Riff-Raff out". It's petty and wrong-headed. Also, I'll drive an extra hour to play Settlers of Catan vs. anything else, but thats because it is the Best Game Ever...

PHB Chapter-by-Chapter Hate-review: 1 An Inflated Point-buy system 2 Half Elves - what is special here? Why do you exist instead of half Dragonborn or half Dwarfs? 3 A class called "Ranger" that really should be termed a Scout or Skirmisher. 4 History is wildly vague. 5 "Underfoot" feat...

Sacred Cows make tasty Beef. Dr. Who called you about 25 years ago. "People who tolerate THAC0" wasn't a good demographic in the first place.

The only people who throw on the "Casual" label on people are the ones that want to be labeled as "Supercool"/"Hardcore". 4E isn't "casual", its just a well-designed system that has a smoother learning curve and better base-level assumptions and balance concerns. If a non-competitive game like...

They might just have prepared for the amount of demand that they had been interacting with during the development: The 3E Grognards, the Internet Reactionaries, the splintered and self-selecting vocal minorities. In reality, an announcement of 4E reached the ears of people who wanted it, and...

Who ever said that the Mortals were in any way normal or mundane? Especially considering that Dwarfs would have exploding hearts as a feature of their anatomy. Martial Power source only means that you don't have any outside forces causing your abilities. It doesn't mean that you can't use...

Well then Hello Again to you, Wayoftheearth. I hope someday we may be familiar with each-other to skip the formalities. I was so sick of the lack of function within the "3E" system that I've been playing nigh-diceless (deck-random) Spycraft and/or Spycraft 2E for the past 3 years. The...

I don't see how balancing all your encounters around Scry-Port, Polymorph, and Flight isn't a lot of tweaking iffy mechanics. Or trying to ensure that the "Skill Monkey" has his 5 minutes to shine while the other 3 guys sit around and twiddle thumbs. If your personal or game-groups Form is...

Two things: You're comparing 4E D&D to the D&D or other sacred-cow game system you came from. Instead compare it to an inventive form of Cops and Robbers. You invent a method of conflict resolution and start working up from there. This is a game that is like any other RPG with some Form, in...

Gosh, I hope the Arcane Leader[Bard] is a striker/Leader. Anyway. Isn't there a false dichotomy of optimal choices here? A Cleric that does 2-H weapon damage is spending actions doing things that aren't it's true goal, because a larger percentage of it's power choices (vs. comparable...

Nope, pretty sure you just argued that the illiquid market should encourage Merchants to lower prices as well. But if playing mobile goalposts is your own flawed debate tactic, so be it. Considering that you've already read the whole "Used Book turnaround" to show that an established buyer is...

Why exactly would the Merchant be in modern concept of a "sale" situation? 1- Magic item's don't have a sell-buy date and aren't shipped in at a rate that would necessitate a storage clearance, considering the supply issue of willing wizards vs. factory work. 2- Commodity Trusts are broken...

"Right place, Right time" happens about one in a million, logically. Fire-sales that other merchants/powerful folk haven't already taken advantage? The only time that you can assume that your character is there is if you caused the fire-sale, which is a different kettle of fish entirely...

You want to know where Dragons and all those monsters get all their treasure from? By eating and hunting down the stupid PCs that stay in one spot for long enough. There is no credit or insurance for easily-killable meat sacks like Adventurers. Tiered economies have always been terrible...

Its a side-note, but I find speaking like a Textbook works when dealing with a Textbook Case. You believe that an Implied Setting Name is an objectively terrible decision? Why would they "float" an objectively terrible decision with little-to-no support, follow-up, or explanation? It...